From a distance, Ines looked truly light. She did not have the way of making people tense as when standing close.
Slowly feeling the corners of her mouth curl up, Carson leaned lazily against the balcony railing to admire that mysterious lady. The more he looked, the more intriguing the woman seemed, continuously making her way towards the gradually receding garden.
“What is this?”
Then, because of the man following her, Carson doubted his own eyes. What he was seeing was undoubtedly the escort knight of Countess Graham’s daughter.
A man with a slightly taller stature and an upright posture was chasing her with big strides. Raymond hurriedly left the balcony.
(This is a time separator.)
Ines, due to Joseph staring openly at her, had no choice but to send him a separate look. Joseph seemed clueless as he revealed his longing feelings. They had promised to meet in the garden, so he would follow her shortly.
“Ines.”
Joseph called her name very affectionately. She barely managed to smile as she turned towards him. Her carefully arranged expression began to falter because of the man approaching as if to embrace her at any moment.
Fortunately, Joseph stopped right in front of Ines. He exhaled a deep breath, as if he had been fully submerged in water and had just come out.
“Finally, we can face each other and talk.”
Had he yearned for her like this in his past life as well? Ines shook her head. He was affectionate but not so unbridled as now.
“That’s right.”
“How have you been all this time?”
As she nodded her head, he immediately made a sad face.
“I have not been able to eat properly or sleep.”
“I wasn’t comfortable either. But you have to be careful.”
“Yes, I know. But I have good news, so I wanted to meet you as soon as possible.”
“Good… news?”
As Ines narrowed her eyes, he inhaled deeply, puffing out his chest.
“I have received the title of Baron.”
“Ha.”
Ines sighed in astonishment, bowing her head, her shoulders quivering as she laughed. It must have appeared to him as a gesture of deep emotion.
What was he trying to achieve by going to such lengths to marry her? No, why did Count Graham want to marry his daughter to this man?
It was not enough to turn a common knight into a count’s escort knight, but also to grant him a baron’s title.
In the Keinz Empire, to marry a noble lady, a husband must be given a considerable amount of dowry. At that time, Joseph was a common knight, so he had no obligation to provide a dowry. But her father provided a house for the two to live in, ten years’ living expenses, and two maids as dowry support.
If the wife died during marriage, half of the dowry could be returned and repossessed by her family. But if the husband died, the story changed. The wife continued to own her husband’s property, his title, and the dowry she brought.
In the case of the Ines family, where there was no one else to inherit the title, Ines Brnoa could receive the title of the Swellend family.
However, in that case, she would become Ines Swellend Brnoa, and only her direct descendants could inherit the title. So a woman could only temporarily hold a title until she passed it on to a direct descendant.
If she had no direct descendants, the family line would end there.
But what if the wife murdered her husband unfaithfully?
Not only the dowry but also consolation money and other compensation had to be given. Even so, the title was a different matter.
After her father passed away, the most natural situation was to pass the title to some distant relative of the Swellend family. The fact that it was given not to anyone else but to the family of the deceased soninlaw was an incomprehensible passage.
At that time, the sin committed by Ines left a great issue that stirred the entire empire.
People gathered their voices to cry that she, who brutally murdered her husband to wield many governments, should be put to death by hanging.
However, Joseph had a twin brother, and he had returned to Keynes from a distant continent just in time. Perhaps the Emperor of Keynes intended to avert the social confusion by dismissing the sin of the woman deserving of blame, by passing the title to her family.
“To become a Baron…?”
Joseph, mistaking Ines’s appearance for another meaning, took a step closer to her.
“Do not cry, Ines. Of course, even if I become a Baron, the Viscount of Swelden will oppose our marriage. But now that I’m also a noble, he won’t be able to stop me until the end.”
Yes, that’s right. Even when he was a commoner, her father couldn’t stop Ines’s determination in the end.
“How?”
“What?”
“How did you receive the title of Baron? It’s not something that can be done so easily and quickly.”
“Ah….”
Joseph blushed like someone who was modest about what he had accomplished.
“Actually, I saved the life of the daughter of Count Graham.”
“Really?”
“Do you know Brida Lake in Lusonia?”
“I know it.”
“Not long ago, Lord Graham fell into the lake while enjoying boating.”
“You saved him then.”
“That’s right.”
He smiled brightly with a proud face.
My Arch-enemy Sealed My Memory and Said That He is My Husband
This is an incredibly captivating story that you absolutely shouldn’t miss! I’ll give a brief introduction here, and below you’ll find a detailed synopsis of the plot.
The female lead is a fierce and powerful demon king. The male lead is a once-in-a-millennium celestial lord, admired by the entire cultivation world.
They are equally matched, legendary rivals who have battled for centuries.
In the final duel, the female lead is gravely injured. The male lead saves her, seals her memories, and hides her true identity. He tells her that he is her fiancé. His entire life has been flawless—except for the one thing he never expected, never controlled, and never wanted to control: falling for his greatest enemy. She is his inner demon, his obsession.
When the female lead regains her memories, she is furious at his deception.
She makes his life a living hell.
And somehow, the male lead—possibly a total masochist—doesn’t mind at all. In fact, he’s happy she’s paying attention to him.
Yep, we’re back to my favorite trope: male lead suffering. If you love this kind of story, jump into the pit with me now!!!
Intro
Dong Xia lost her memory.
Her handsome and extremely powerful fiancé Li Qing comforted her: “It’s okay if you can’t remember. I’ll always be with you.”
Everyone thought Dong Xia’s ancestors must have burned incense to get such a perfect fiancé. He was the number one person in the immortal realm, yet he remained chaste and only loved her.
…
The day before marrying her fiancé, Dong Xia finally remembered everything.
She wasn’t suffering from memory loss at all.
Her arch-enemy had made her fake her death, destroyed her cultivation, replaced her memories, and pretended to be her deeply in love fiancé.
No wonder he said, “It’s okay if you can’t remember”!
Dong Xia laughed coldly as she pulled out her long knife: Li Qing, prepare to die 🙂
*
Li Qing, as the supreme being of the immortal realm, was the people’s shining beacon.
The only unknown stain in his life was his affection for Dong Xia, the ruler of the demon realm.
In the final battle of the war between immortals and demons, the sky collapsed and the earth shattered. The ruler of the demon realm was finally slain under the sword of the supreme being of the immortal realm, and everyone in the immortal realm applauded.
The cultivation world lost a ruler of the demon realm.
And in the back mountain of Li Qing’s cave dwelling, he secretly hid away a fiancée.
Notes:
1. The female lead is white on the outside, black on the inside, and the queen of flattery; the male lead repeatedly tests the edge of darkness, a VIP guest at the crematorium.
2. Fantasy cultivation world setting.
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